Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!dadla!amadeus!jrb
From: jrb@amadeus.TEK.COM (Jim Binkley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: vi, Kim Basinger, and root
Message-ID: <1047@amadeus.TEK.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 88 20:55:03 GMT
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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Keywords: vi


If K. B. is reading this. Hi!

I would like to thank the party responsible
for posting "levee" to the net. I would
like to encourage the fellow who redid
"stevie" round 2, to repost the src to the net
or send me a copy. Por favor. I missed it last time
and I can't find it anywhere.

Now to change the subject:

I noticed last night that the following inadvertant finger-goof
command adminstered from the Mark Williams shell on my atari
caused a great deal of havoc on my Mark Williams created ram disk:

mwsh> cp foofile e:\\

The first time I tried it, it "seemingly"
wiped out the hard disk. I ran "tuneup" on
the disk and tuneup did indeed find damage and
repair same. I then tried it again and tried it
on a floppy disk that I no longer loved (and studiously
avoided trying it on the hard disk...). This time
no apparent damage occured. All that happened was
that I got a file named "\". Now this made the
Mark Williams shell very unhappy. The desktop
showed the file as "noname" but showed. 

mwsh> rm e:\\

worked. Curious. Now of course I tried it on my
pc-xt since of course we know that tos and dos
"have the same file system". All dos incantations
refused to permit "\\" as a filename. Good for dos.
Bad for tos. And here I thought that dealing with
the root directory on msdos was strange. Wrong.

This is another reason why K.B. is no longer using
her s.t. :->...

			jim binkley
			jrb@amadeus.tek.com

			It's raining in Oregon.